Day-to-day Variation in Autonomy-Supportive and Psychologically Controlling Parenting: The Role of Parents’ Daily Experiences of Need Satisfaction and Need Frustration

The Role of Child Personality in Effects of Psychologically Controlling Parenting: An Examination at the Level of Daily Fluctuations

“…Consistent with past work (e.g. Aunola et al, ; Mabbe, Soenens, Vansteenkiste, van der Kaap‐Deeder, & Mouratidis, ), multilevel analyses showed that there was significant day‐to‐day variability in both maternal and paternal psychologically controlling parenting. About half of the variance in the scores for psychologically controlling parenting represents daily variation, indicating that this dimension of parenting is quite variable and susceptible to daily change.…”

“…the lagged analyses and the cross‐reporter analyses), there were almost no significant interactions. Much like research examining the moderating role of child personality at the between‐person level (Mabbe et al, ; Mabbe, Soenens, De Muynck, & Vansteenkiste, ; Mabbe, Soenens, Vansteenkiste, et al, ), this research suggests that personality plays a modest moderating role in effects of psychologically controlling parenting. The few interactions obtained are consistent with the diathesis–stress model (Kiff et al, ), stating that the combination of adverse parenting and vulnerable child characteristics is leading to the least favourable outcomes.…”

Parental psychological control, adolescent self‐criticism, and adolescent depressive symptoms: A latent change modeling approach in Belgian adolescents

“…A number of studies have already identified such antecedents of parental use of psychological control, demonstrating a role for both adolescent behavior (with problem behaviors and adolescents’ failure to achieve parental goals eliciting more parental psychological control) and parent characteristics, such as parents’ anxiety about the increased autonomy of their adolescents (Soenens et al., ) and parents’ own level of self‐criticism (Soenens et al., ). In addition to the role of fairly stable parent characteristics, research has also begun to demonstrate the role of more transient experiences in parents’ use of psychological control, showing that parents are more likely to resort to psychologically controlling practices on days when they experience more negative affect (Aunola, Viljaranta, & Tolvanen, ) and have experiences of incompetence, pressure, and social alienation (Mabbe, Soenens, Vansteenkiste, van der Kaap‐Deeder, & Mouratidis, ).…”

Reflections on self‐determination theory as an organizing framework for personality psychology: Interfaces, integrations, issues, and unfinished business

“…In contrast, MDT sees its varied needs as relatively independent individual differences, which may or may not be fused or subordinated to one another. They also are quite independent empirically, unlike SDT’s concepts, which strongly and consistently relate, especially at the more general level (Mabbe, Soenens, Vansteenkiste, Van der Kaap‐Deeder, & Mouratidis, ; Ryan & Deci, ).…”